Im a noob; syntax error on the first freakin try

[jasonham]

Help me please!!!!!!!!! I'll think your a genius if you do!!

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /hermes/bosweb26a/b1854/ipg.elevenersforumcom/phpsessions/getcountry.php on line 6

<?php


$ip = $_REQUEST['ip'];

$file = “http://www.ipgp.net/api/xml/”. $ip;

global $predata;
function contents($parser, $data){
global $predata;
if($data) {
$predata[] = $data;
}
}

[bradgrafelman]

Welcome to PHPBuilder! When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

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[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

As for your problem, you've got “curly quotes” in there instead of "regular double quotes." Whichever editor you were using that inserted those is probably not one that is meant to be used for writing code.